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AlienResearchGrpHome wrote:I had the opportunity to work with some great examples of the best qualities in athletes - in the form of participants in Special Olympics events in both MT and CA.

You will not find, in general, athletes where their medals of personal achievement and ensigns of participation mean more! If one could see, as I did, the continual source of joy these things provide to these fine people, you would find it very difficult to not contribute. In some way.

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Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.
- Hugh Blair

There is no such thing as normal. Normal is a setting on a washing machine.

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The Cure will be playing their only show of the Summer at the Royal Albert Hall, London on Saturday, 1st April 2006.

And visitors to www.thecure.com have a 24 hour window to get tickets before they go on general sale...

PLEASE CLICK THIS LINK FOR DETAILS.

The show is taking place as part of the 2006 Teenage Cancer Trust Concerts running from March 27th - April 1st.
The full line-up (with surprises still to be announced) is:

Monday March 27th
A night of sublime stand up with special guest Ricky Gervais
Tuesday March 28th
Goldfrapp plus very special guest to be announced
Wednesday March 29th
Bloc Party and special guests including Biffy Clyro and Mystery Jets
Thursday March 30th
Razorlight plus very special guest to be announced
Friday March 31st
Tommy Vance Tribute Night with Judas Priest, The Scorpions, Ian Gillan and Friends and Boned
Saturday April 1st
The Cure

Previous Teenage Cancer Trust shows have featured The Who, Oasis, Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand, Keane, Paul Weller, Coldplay, Bryan Adams, Ash, Doves, Robert Plant, UB40, Madness, Eric Clapton and Roger Daltrey, who is a patron of Teenage Cancer Trust and who, with the Trust’s Chairman Dr Adrian Whiteson OBE, came up with the idea of these Albert Hall shows.

Every day in the UK, six teenagers are diagnosed with cancer – and the numbers are rising. As a result of the funds raised from these shows and other events Roger Daltrey is involved in for TCT, the charity has been able to help a great deal more of these teenagers.

Since the first show in November 2000, TCT has opened Units in Sheffield and Liverpool and a new Unit in London. In 2006 the charity will open a Unit in Glasgow and will begin building work on sites in Cardiff and Cambridge. TCT appointed the world’s first Professor of Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Medicine and in August 2005 welcomed a set of NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) Guidance advocating a desperate need for more specialist age-appropriate cancer wards, like those built by TCT.

Talking about this year’s shows, Roger Daltrey CBE said: “Every year there are nights that stand out in the diary but this year every night stands out. We’ve got some of the best British bands who have come through in the last few years - Goldfrapp, Bloc Party, Mystery Jets and Razorlight and those nights are going to be special. The comedy night is undoubtedly going to be a triumph as ever. The Tommy Vance tribute is already shaping up to be a fantastic night of hard rock with Judas Priest, Scorpions and Ian Gillan; and what can I say about The Cure? I won’t be missing that gig for anything.”

Teenage Cancer Trust Chairman, Dr Adrian Whiteson OBE said “These shows are really making a difference for many young people with cancer. Since the first Who and Friends Show at the Albert Hall in November 2000, these gigs have raised enough money to build more Teenage Cancer Trust Units and we remain indebted to Roger Daltrey and the other artists who give up their time for TCT.”

Teenage Cancer Trust

Teenage Cancer Trust was set up to focus on the particular needs of teenagers and young adults with cancer, leukaemia, Hodgkin’s and related diseases. The Trust builds special units, developed and decorated to cater for teenage needs – usually, teenagers with cancer are placed either in a paediatric ward with young children or in adult wards with elderly patients.

Teenage Cancer Trust anticipates a 15% increase in survival rates for patients treated on the units, of which there are currently seven in Britain. The Trust hopes to raise enough over the next few years to increase that number to 22 – units costs an average £1.5m each to build.

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